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9e4922f0 1'\" t -*- coding: KOI8-R -*-
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2.\" Copyright 2001 Alexey Mahotkin <alexm@hsys.msk.ru>
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608bf950 24.TH KOI8-R 7 2012-08-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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25.nh
26.SH NAME
84092221 27koi8-r \- Russian character set encoded in octal, decimal, and
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28hexadecimal
29.SH DESCRIPTION
30KOI8-R is the character set of choice for encoding Russian texts for
008f1ecc 31many UNIX-like operation systems.
c13182ef 32KOI8-R is a successor for KOI-8, a
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33de-facto standard for Internet Mail, News, WWW and other interactive
34services at least all over the ex-SU territory.
35.PP
331da7c3 36KOI8-R is defined by RFC\ 1489 (Registration of a Cyrillic Character
fea681da 37Set).
19c98696 38.SH NOTES
fea681da 39KOI8-R was designed for mixed Russian/English texts and covers
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40only Russian Cyrillic characters,
41so if you're looking for Cyrillic characters for Ukrainian,
42Byelorussian, and so on,
43try ISO-IR-111, or KOI8-U
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44(Ukrainian Character Set), or KOI8-C (for ancient Russian texts)
45instead, which are identical to KOI8-R in the Russian Cyrillic letters
46area.
47.PP
48A more complete set of Cyrillic characters is also defined by the
49ISO-8859-5 character set.
73d8cece 50.SS KOI8-R characters
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51The following table displays the characters in KOI8-R, which
52are printable and unlisted in the
53.BR ascii (7)
54manual page.
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55.TS
56l l l c lp-1.
57Oct Dec Hex Char Description
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